unir

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūnīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Homophone: uní

Verb

unir (first-person singular present uneixo, first-person singular preterite uní, past participle unit)

1. (transitive) to unite, join
2. (transitive) to combine
3. (transitive) to link together
4. (intransitive) to be united, to be joined
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to join (a group), to become a participant or member of

Conjugation

Derived terms

• unir-se

Related terms

• un

Further reading

• “unir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “unir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “unir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “unir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French unir, borrowed from Latin ūnīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.niʁ/
• Rhymes: -iʁ

• Audio (France, Paris)

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Verb

unir

1. (transitive) to unite, join
2. (transitive) to combine

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Antonyms

• séparer

Derived terms

• Émirats arabes unis
• États-Unis d’Amérique
• prolétaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous

Related terms

Further reading

• “unir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin ūnīre, present active infinitive of ūniō.

Verb

unir

1. to unite

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ūnīre, present active infinitive of ūniō. Attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Verb

unir

1. to unite

Conjugation

    Conjugation of unir in Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		unir			?er unit
past participle		unit			—
gerund		unissent			?ent unit
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	unissi	unisses	unís	unissèm	unissètz	unisson
	imperfect	unissiái	unissiás	unissiá	unissiam	unissiatz	unissián
	preterite	uniguèri	uniguères	uniguèt	uniguèrem	uniguèretz	uniguèron
	future	unirai	uniràs	unirà	unirem	uniretz	uniràn
	conditional	uniriái	uniriás	uniriá	uniriam	uniriatz	unirián
	conditional 2nd form1	uniguèra	uniguèras	uniguèra	unigueram	unigueratz	uniguèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of ?er plus the past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of ?er plus the past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of ?er plus the past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of ?er plus the past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of ?er plus the past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	unisca	uniscas	unisca	uniscam	uniscatz	uniscan
	imperfect	uniguèsse	uniguèsses	uniguèsse	uniguèssem	uniguèssetz	uniguèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			unís		uniscam	unissetz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Related terms

• union

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūnīre (“to unite”), from ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one; single”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: uni (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: u‧nir

Verb

unir (first-person singular present uno, first-person singular preterite uni, past participle unido)

1. (transitive) to bind; to connect

   Synonyms: colar, conectar, grudar, jungir, juntar, ligar, prender, vincular

   Antonyms: desconectar, desprender, desvincular, separar

2. (transitive, intransitive) to unite (come or bring together as one)

   Synonyms: aliar, casar, conectar, juntar, vincular

   Antonyms: desvincular, separar

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

• “unir” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “unir” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “unir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “unir” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “unir” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “unir” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūnīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈniɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: u‧nir

Verb

unir (first-person singular present uno, first-person singular preterite uní, past participle unido)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to unite, join

   ¡Únete al sindicato!

   Join up with the union!

2. (transitive) to merge, conflate

Conjugation

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “unir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin ūnīre, present active infinitive of ūniō. Compare Italian unire.

Verb

unir

1. (transitive) to unite, join (together)

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞nɪr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːnɪr/, /ˈɪnɪr/

Verb

unir

1. (literary) impersonal present/future of uno